Viz Channel Branding User Guide

Version 5.2 | Published June 05, 2024 ©

Reading Channel and Date Values from Filenames

If your collected schedule does not contain channel and date values, you can use the schedule’s file name to extract information.

The import/update process can read these two fields from the imported filename when using

To read channel and date from the filename

  • Set their mapping to $Filename

  • Define the filename format in the Schedule File Name Info parameter in Mapping Settings.

  • The file format should contain Y/M/D to represent the year/month/day character location in the file name, and C to represent the character locations of the channel name in the file name.
    Characters that do not belong to the channel/date can be written as any character except for Y/M/D/C.

Example

For a filename Channel10_20090627.txt, set Schedule File Name Info to CCCCCCCCC_YYYYMMDD or CCCCCCCCC_YYYYMMDD.txt.